The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-06-09

is the dearest place you will find this side
of Heaven. The place where your chill
dren were born is the place where you
want to die. To write the figures of 1862 I
set up your crystals, crystals of tears. To
write the figures of 1887 stand up four
members Of your household, figures Of
rosy cheeks and faxen hair, If can get
them to stand still long enough.
Contrast also the religious opportunities
Oh twenty years ago with now. Often on
the march from Sunday morn till night,
or commanded by officers who considered
the name of God and Christ of no use OK.
eept to swear by. Sometimes the drums
head, the pulpit and you standing in heat
or cold, all the surroundings of military
life having tendency to make you reck.
less. No privacy for prayer or Bible read
ing. No sound or church bells. Sabbaths
spent far away from the place where you
were brought up. Now, the choicest
! sanctuaries, easy pew, all Christian sur
roundings, the air full of God and Christ,
and heaven and doxology. Three noun
tains lifting themselves into the holy light
. Mount Sinai laundering its law, Mount
, Calvary pleading the sacrifice, Mount
Pisgah displaying the promised land.
Contrast the national condition: 1862,
spending money by the millions in devas'
tation Of property and life; 1887, the
| finances so reconstructed that all the stock
gamblers of Wall street combined cannot
| make national panic; 1862, surgeons OF
the land setting broken bones and ann
| putating gangrened limbs and studying
| gunshot fractures and inventing easy am
| balances for the wounded and dying; 1887,
surgeons giving their attentions TO those in
casualty of agriculture, Of commerce, or
| mechanical life, the rushing of ambulance
through our streets, not suggesting battle,
but quick relief of some one fallen in
| peaceful industries; 1862, $4,000, 900 in
habitants in this land; 1887, 55,0O0,000;
1862, wheat, about8 so, 900, 900 bushels; 1887,
the wheat will be about 500, 900, coo bushels;
| 1862, Pacific coast five weeks from the
Atlantic; 1887, for three reasons, Union
Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Northern
| Pacific, only seven days across. Look at
the long line of churches, universities,
/ asylums, and houses with which, during
the last few years, this land has been
| decorated.
Living soldiers of the north and south,
1 take new and special ordination at this
season of the year, to garland the spulchera
| Of your fallen comrades. Nothing is too
| good for their memories. Turn all the
| private tombs and the national cemeteries
| into gardens. Ye dead of Malvern Hill and
| Cold Harbor and Murfreesboro and
Manassas junction and Cumberland Gap
and field hospital, receive these floral offer.
! ings of the living soldiers.
| But they shall come again, all the dead
, troops. We sometimes talk about earthly
military reviews, such as took place in
Paris in the time of Marshal Ney, in Lon
don in the time of Wellington and in our
own land, but what tame things compared
! with the final review, when all the armies
| of the ages shall pass for divine and an
| gelic inspection. st. John says the armies
, of Heaven ride on white horses, and don't
! know but many of the old cavalry horses OF
earthly battle, that were wounded and
worn out in service, may have resurrection.
II would be only fair that, raised up and
ennobled, they would be resurrected for the
| grand review of the judgment day. II
| would not take any more power to recon-
struct their bodies than TO reconstruct ours,
and I should be very glad to see them
among the white horses OF apocalyptid
vision. Hark to the trumpet blast, the
reveille of the last judgment! They come
| up. All the armies of all lands and oil
| centuries, on which ever side they fought,
whether for freedom or despotism, Tor the
! right or the wrong. They comel They
| come! Darius and Cyrus, and Sennach-
| eIlD) anu OObuuu, duu DhNluy leduluB IOrCl
/ the armies of scriptural times; Hannibal
and Hamilcar leading forth the armies Of
| the Carthaginians; Victor Emmanuel and
| Garibaldi leading on the armies of the
| Italians; Tamerlane and Ghengis Khan
| followed by the armies Of Asia; Gustavus
Adolphus, and Ptolemy Philopater, and
Xerxes, and Alexander, and Semiramis,
and Washington, leading battalion after
| battalion. The dead American armies OF
| 1776 and 1912, and l,000,OO0 of northern
| and southern dead in our civil war. They
come up. They pass on in review. The
! 6,OOO,OOO fallen in Napoleonic battles, the
| 12,00O,O00 Germans fallen in the Thirty
| Years War, the 100000 fallen in the war
under Sesostris; the 10000, 900 fallen in the
| wars of Justinian; the $4,000, 900 fallen in
| Jewish wars; the SG,O00,000 fallen in the
| crusades, the 1S0,00O,000 fallen in the wars
with Saracens and Turks the 35,O0O,OOO,-
900 men estimated to have fallen in battle,
| enough, according to one statistician, If
they stood four abreast, to reach clear
around the earth 442 times.
But we shall have time to see them pass
in review before the throne of Judgment
the cavalrymen, the artillerymen, the
spearmen, the infantry, the sharpshooters,
the gunners, the sappers, the miners, the
archers, the skirmishers, men of all colors,
of all epaulets, of all standards, Of all
weaponry, of all countries. Let the earth
be especially balanced to hear their tread.
Forward! Forward Let the orchestra Of
the heavenly galleries play the grand
march, joined by all the hfers, drummers,
and military bands that ever sounded VIC
tory or defeat at Eylau or BUrodina, at
Marathon or Thermopyle, Bunker Hill or
Yorktown, Solferino or Balaclava, Sedan
or Gettysburg, from the time when
Joshu halted astro.. onr above Gibeon
and Aialon till the last Mon surrendered to
Garnet Wolseley at Tel-e!- .ebir. Nations,
companies, battalions, ages. CENTURIES, and
the universal Forward in u grand re-
view of the Judgment Forwa =, Gracious
and eternal God On that LAY may it be
found that we are all marching in the
right regiment and that we carried the
right standard, aud that We fought under
the right commander, all Heaven, some on
amethystine battlement and others stand
ing in the shining gates, some on pearly
shore and others on turreted heights, Civ
ing us the resounding, million voiced
cheer: "Lo him that overcometh!"
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from
everlasting to everlasting, and let the
whole earth be filed with His glory.
Amen and amen!